Carolina and Robin talk about Spirited Away, Japan's most successful film of all time, and likely one of the best films about life in a ghost bathhouse.

Politics include: how said bathhouse is maybe a metaphor for oppression, but also a really lovely-looking place; the post-80s economic bubble haze in Japan; and a very cool radish ghost.

Continue the reverie:

• *That* review of Spirited Away by Nigel Andrews from the FT
• A Youtube love letter to Ghibli, with an interview with the man himself
• What Hayao Miyazaki really thinks of AI (it's not pretty)

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